Would You Die For Me by Cen009

Format: Commander

Commander: Ziatora, the Incinerator

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Jund Aristocrats and Treasure burn strategy led by Ziatora, the Incinerator. It uses early ramp and persistent token generators like Black Market Connections, Bitterblossom, and Urabrask's Forge to deploy Ziatora reliably on Turn 4. At the end of each turn, Ziatora sacrifices large creatures or expendable tokens to fling damage directly at targets while generating three Treasure tokens. This burst mana fuels massive follow-up turns, deploying damage doublers such as Twinflame Tyrant and Bloodletter of Aclazotz or explosive aristocrat payoffs like Mirkwood Bats and Marionette Apprentice. The deck also features a compact two-card infinite combo between Chatterfang, Squirrel General and Pitiless Plunderer, generating infinite mana, infinite tokens, and board-wide creature removal. Robust protection from Heroic Intervention and Hexing Squelcher, combined with graveyard recursion, ensures high resilience.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bitterblossom
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Bloodletter of Aclazotz
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cragcrown Pathway // Timbercrown Pathway
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 2 Forest
  • 1 Generous Plunderer
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hanweir Battlements
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Korvold, Fae-Cursed King
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meren of Clan Nel Toth
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Old Gnawbone
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Phyrexian Reclamation
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaza of Heroes
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadow in the Warp
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire Garden
  • 1 Stomping Ground
  • 1 Survival of the Fittest
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Taiga
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The Great Henge
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask's Forge
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vat of Rebirth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xenagos, God of Revels
  • 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
  • 1 Ziatora, the Incinerator